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Getting Started

Working with Chords

title: Getting Started
artist: TabBank Editor
Welcome to TabBank Editor!
This app is a tab editor. That means it will help you edit guitar tabs and chords. Edit plain text on the left, and you’ll get nicely formatted sheet music on the right.
(You can even edit this help file. Go ahead, try it!)
ChordBank Editor keeps all your music in one place, and you can access it online, on your phone, or print professional looking sheet music to bring with you anywhere.
We use our own flavor of the ChordPro standard to edit tab files.
Use brackets to show where chords go:
My [C]Bonnie lies [F]over the [C]ocean
My [C]Bonnie lies [D]over the [G7]sea.
And rows of dashes to show tablature, or tab:
---0---------------|---0--------------
-----3-1-3-1-------|-----3-1-1-0-1-3--
-0-----------2-0---|-0----------------
-----------------2-|------------------
-------------------|------------------
-------------------|------------------
There’s much more you can do with this app, but the best way to learn is to get started. Please, feel free to play around and edit this article—don't worry, you won't break anything, and your changes won't be saved.
Use the File menu to open one of your other charts, or to create a new one.

title: Working with Chords
artist: ChordBank Editor
# Chords and Lyrics
You can insert chords in lines of lyrics like this:
My [C]Bonnie lies [F]over the [C]ocean
You can even put chords all by themselves:
[C] [F] [C]
# Converting to ChordPro
Sometimes, you have a chart where the chords aren’t in brackets. Like this:
C F C
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
This makes it more difficult for this app to place the chords where they need to go. You can convert to the ChordPro brackets format by clicking the Edit menu, and then Convert to ChordPro. Try it, now!
# Custom Chords
If you'd rather play your chord in a specific way, you can define chords by typing their name, then a colon, and then the frets for each one, or an ‘x’:
C: x32010
F: 133211
G7: 320001
Anywhere those chords are used, in the iOS app, for example, when you tap on a chord to preview it, your custom versions will be used.